-Caveat Lector- >From AddAll.CoM www.addall.com > TITLE: Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII > ISBN: 0670886939 > Publisher: Viking Penguin > Publish Date: 1 October 1999 > Author: Cornwell, John > Binding: Hardcover 512 pages > List Price: US 29.95 > > > Publisher Review > > The explosive untold story of the most dangerous churchman in modern > history--drawn from secret archives by an award-winning Roman Catholic > journalist > > Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII--a man with unprecedented power for good and evil--was > pope from 1939 to 1958. Today, still shadowed by his failure to condemn Hitler's > Final Solution, he is at the same time nearing canonization. Backed by new > research and exclusive access to a wealth of Vatican and Jesuit archives, John > Cornwell tells for the first time, in depth, the truth about Pacelli's long > career as a Vatican diplomat and the accord between Pacelli and Hitler that > helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power. > > Hitler's Pope shows how Pacelli's entire life and career led to this, from a > brilliant young Vatican lawyer drafting new papal power for the twentieth > century to his 1933 Concordat with Hitler that muzzled protest by Germany's > Catholic community, the most powerful in the world. Cornwell's explosive > conclusion is that without Pacelli's contribution, Hitler might never have come > to power or been able to press forward with the Holocaust. > > As searing and provocative as David Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews or > Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, Hitler's Pope conclusively > documents Pius XII's anti-Semitism, narcissism, and calamitous mix of political > and spiritual ambition--and it shows how many of Pacelli's policies are > reasserting themselves today under the reign of John Paul II. It will surely > spark a worldwide furor of controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic > Church. > > "Eugenio Pacelli was not a monster; his case is far more complex, more tragic > than that. The interest of his story depends on a fatal combination of high > spiritual aspirations in conflict with soaring ambitions for unprecedented power > and control."--from the Preface > > "Pius XII and the Jews . . . the whole thing is too sad and serious for > bitterness."--Thomas Merton For a price comparison go to (copy the text from here and paste in your browser address window; some will not be highlighted and may cause an error): http://www2.addall.com/New/compare.cgi?dispCurr=US&id=57640&isbn=0670886939&location=10000&thetime=19990907231715&state=AK A<>E<>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." 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